Mark Roxey

Mr. Roxey is from Brookln NY. He began his formal training at The Joffrey Ballet in New York City , to which he was awarded a full scholarship and later graduated at the top of his class. He went on to dance professionally with Joffrey Ballet Concert Company under the direction of Edith A’ddario, Joffrey Ballet II under the direction of Gage Bush and Richard England and The Joffrey Ballet under the direction of the late Robert Joffrey. He then joined American Repertory Ballet and Dayton Ballet as a principal dancer under the direction of Dermote Burke and Marjorie Mussman. Mr Roxey has perfromed in works by George Balanchine, Gerald Arpino, Robert Joffrey, Paul Taylor, Jose Limon, Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp, William Forsythe, John Cranko, John Butler, Maurice Petipa, August Bourneville,, and many others. He has appeared as a principal guest artist in numerous ballet companies around the world with his partner and wife, Melissa Roxey. He has also performed for over 200 hundred regional companies including Eglevsky Ballet, Septime Webre Dance and The North Star Dance Theatre. Mr. Roxey has won critical acclaim as a performer from dance critics around the world. He has served on the faculty of public and private schools around the country, including Princeton Ballet, Dayton Ballet, Wright State University, Trotwood Madison City Schools and Northeast Youth Ballet to name a few. He recently accepted a positon at Raritian Valley College as an adjunt faculty member in dance. Since becoming founder and director of Roxey Ballet and associate director of The Mill Ballet School, Mr. Roxey has choreographed the company’s full-length ballets which include “The Nutcracker”, “Dracula”, “Pied Piper of Hamelin”, “Peter and the Wolf”, Carnival of the Animals, Mowgli, Othello, and “Cinderella,”. Roxey has created an impressive list of over 30 repertory works including “La Baliene Blanche,” “Women and Children to the Left,” “Write Between the Lines,” “Palace of Mirrors,” “Temptation,” “Appreciation,” “Inside the Out,” “In Excess of Four,” “MLK” “Celebrating Diversity”, “Wheels and Bodies in Motion” and “Artillery Man.” Mr. Roxey serves as dance program coordinator for the Hunterdon County Teen Arts Dance Festival and adjudicates for the State Teen Arts Festival and other festivals around the country. Mr. Roxey manages to make brief appearances on stage with Roxey Ballet and Kitty Lunn’s Infinite Dancers. He has served as the dance director of Matheny’s Schools “Arts Access, Program” for more then a decade. He continues to keep himself busy developing employment, artistic and creative opportunities for the the dance community.